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- Patented July 2, IBM. L. WELKER, Sn.

TABLE (Application filed Oct. 17, 1900.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR Attorney TABLE.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,726, dated July 2, 1901. Application filed October 17, 1900. Serial No. 33,385. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS WELKER, Sr., a resident of Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tables and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in tables, and more particularly to improved means for fastening the legs to a table, one object of theinvention being to provide means of this character which will form a rigid and strong fastening for the legs and which will brace and strengthen the table to a material extent.

A further object is to provide a table-leg fastening which will greatly cheapen the cost of manufacture of the table and at the same time greatly simplify the same.

With these objects in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of one corner of a table, illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view in section, and Fig. 4 is a View of a modified form of my invention.

1 represents the top of the table, to the bottom of which are secured the side bars or strips 2, which latter are also secured together at their meeting ends, asshown. Each side bar or strip 2 is provided near its lower edge in its inner face near the corners of the table with grooves 3 for the reception of tongues or flanges 4 on the ends of a diagonal brace or bar 5, which latteris made flush with the lower edge of bars or strips 2, and the tongues 4 thereof are preferable secured in the grooves 3 by glue, and triangular blocks 6 are glued to the side barsor strips 2 and the respective ends of bar or brace 5 to further strengthen the table.

The leg 7 is secured in the center of the brace 5 by means of a screw 8, which is secured in the upper end of the leg and is adapted to project through a hole 9 in the brace 5 and to be secured in place by a nut 10, so that the leg can after the nut is in place on the screw be turned to tighten it against the lower face of the brace 5. This of course cannot be done when the legs have claw-feet or are bowed in the French style, which necessitates a particular position of the legs, and when such legs are to be secured in place I provide a pin 10 on the upper end of the leg to fit into a hole 11 in the brace and prevent rotary movement of the leg, the pin 10 and hole 11 being disposed in proper position to maintain the claw-feet or bow of the legs in proper position. \Vhen this pin 10 is employed, the nut 10 must be screwed home on the screw, and for this pur pose a special wrench will when the table is placed on the market be supplied with each table. 1

Instead of constructing my improvements as above described I might make the same as shown in Fig. 4. In this form of my inven tion a brace 12 is secured, by means of screws, to the lower edges of the side bars or strips 2 at the corners of the table and the legs secured to the braces, as above explained in connection with the preferred form of my invention.

Various other slight changes might be resorted to in the general form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I would have it understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

- Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a table, the combination with the top and depending side bars, of a diagonal brace secured at its ends to the side bars in proximity to and spaced from a corner of the table and leaving an open space above it and under the table-top, and a leg secured solely to and bearing against the bottom face of said diagonal brace.

2. The combination with a table and depending side bars, each having a groove in the inner face in proximity to the corners of bearing against the under face of each brace,

a screw secured to the upper end of each leg and passing through the respective diagonal braces, and a nut on each screw and bearing upon the brace whereby the legs are secured solely to said corner-braces and spaced from the extreme corners of the table.

4. In a table, the combination with a top and side bars having grooves in their inner faces near their lower edges in proximity to 20 the corners of the table, of diagonal braces having flanges or tongues on their respective ends to fit into the grooves in the side bars or strips, blocks secured to the side bars and braces at the respective ends of the latter,

.legs and means securing said legs to the under faces of the braces.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib- LOUIS WELKER, SR. Witnesses:

S. W. FOSTER, A. W. BRIGHT.

.ing witnesses. 

